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Dumitru Hristov
Dumitru Hristov

Reputation: 1519

Hyperlink in Android Market description

How to publish a hyperlink in the Android Market description? I've tried to insert something like this: <a href="http://m.url.co.uk/somepage.aspx"></a> in the description, but it shows the exact HTML code instead of a clickable link.

I've seen it done on another Market page so it is possible, but how?

Answer: For the web site it was enough to write the HTTP address. On the device Market it seems to be impossible.

Upvotes: 13

Views: 9552

Answers (6)

All in One King Official
All in One King Official

Reputation: 63

Turns out you will have to post the link without any tags around for example - https://example.com

This should work!

Upvotes: 0

James
James

Reputation: 193

I have also not been able to insert an anchor-tag style descriptive hyperlink in the "Description" field.

That said, it looks like https://market.android.com/details?id=net.timessquareball.app achieves this by simply writing out the entire URL as text (which does work). We've used this method in our app description as well.

If you're interested, I've experimented with a bit of other markup in the "Description" field and blogged about it here.

Upvotes: 7

Oli
Oli

Reputation: 1427

A URL of the following form will be converted to a clickable link and will redirect to the address specified in YOUR_URL.

https://www.google.com/url?q=YOUR_URL

eg: https://www.google.com/url?q=https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=domain.company.appname

Upvotes: 5

Hardy Henneberg
Hardy Henneberg

Reputation: 39

I also had problems linking from one app description to another app in Android Market. Linking to a site outside Market works OK - just type the http:// link without any tags.

So my solution is to link to page on my own website, which redirects to the other app in Market - like I do here : keyboard for Maxikeys

Upvotes: 1

Dumitru Hristov
Dumitru Hristov

Reputation: 1519

At the end of the day, writing just the address http://m.url.co.uk/somepage.aspx, without any tags, makes the link clickable on the Android Market Web Page.

Upvotes: 1

Paresh Mayani
Paresh Mayani

Reputation: 128448

I think you want to provide your android market app link:

  1. market://details?id=com.google.android.googlequicksearchbox
  2. http://market.android.com/details?id=com.google.android.googlequicksearchbox

For more info, check this: How to link to Android Market app

Upvotes: 1

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